Mr. Speaker, we honor American teachers nationwide this week, who, day in and day out, work to make a future brighter for America. We all have had at least one or more teachers who has shaped our lives and who have believed in us. Mine was…

Mr. Speaker, the bill that is before us today is an unbalanced package of cuts that hurts the most vulnerable populations in our society and the working middle class. There was a budget agreement on a bipartisan basis between the Congress…

Mr. President, I salute the life and accomplishments of Burt Bacharach, who received The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song on Tuesday night. This award is given to musicians whose lifetime contributions to the field of…

Instead of a budget that actually reduces the deficit, which this budget would not do, and that tries to do it in a balanced and fair way, the Ryan budget, and this bill specifically, targets those most in need; and it puts our Nation's…

Here is the title of their piece, ``Let's Just Say It, The Republicans Are The Problem.'' They explain that in the past they looked at Congress and thought both parties were to blame. But on reflection, as they studied the facts--not the…

Mr. President, yesterday I spoke on the floor about the Democratic bill to reduce interest rates on student loans, and I was lamenting the fact that our Republican colleagues would not even permit us to turn to the bill. They were…

I just do not believe that the President has been forthright in discussing his energy policy with the Congress.

Nothing would be better for our economy than for us to quit sending that money overseas and spending it right here.

Reclaiming my time, the responsible issue here is if you want to do that, let's have a congressional hearing, an oversight hearing on this ocean policy. I would be proud to defend it. But to take a meat-ax approach and whack it and say…

Mr. Chairman, I can't believe what we're hearing here. How quickly we forget. It was your committee, Mr. Chairman, that passed the bill, the bipartisan bill, that created the Ocean Commission, which was signed into law by President…

No, I will not yield to the gentleman. I think these and a lot of other amendments warrant some serious debate in Congress, but certainly not on this bill and not at this time--10 o'clock at night, in an election year, on a Voting Rights…

I rise in strong opposition to this amendment. First of all, this is an appropriations bill. We're supposed to be discussing how we appropriate money to the Justice Department, Commerce Department, and State Department. People are just…

Hopefully by mid to the latter part of 2013, we will be able to make a transition from a combat role to a training, advice, and assist role.

Madam Chairman, I rise today to engage in a colloquy on NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The chairman has shown great leadership on space and science issues. He and I have often worked together on issues of shared interest, and he is a…

Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the Rohrabacher-Hinchey- Farr and now McClintock amendment. It is obvious from the votes that we've been casting here, yesterday and tonight, this afternoon, that this body insists on protecting the…

Thank you very much. As the President cannot create the councils by executive order, the councils have to be created by Congress. I would hope that the leadership of your committee and jurisdiction would create those councils so that they…

Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…

Mr. Chairman, I rise today, along with Mr. Hinchey, Mr. McClintock, and Mr. Farr, in support of a commonsense amendment that would prohibit the Department of Justice from using funds to prevent States from implementing their own State laws…